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Japanese give formal notice to Sung Cheh-yuan of intention to open hostilities because of Southwest Gate attack; 29th Army driven back to Peiping walls as fighting breaks out at Nanyuan Barracks; Nanking Govt reptd to have rejected Japan's 2 demands for removal of troops from Peiping area; map
A P Sloan Jr cites effect of labor agitation on employers' costs
The text of the Senate Bill to reform procedure in the lower courts, as completed today by the Judiciary Committee, is as follows:
Japanese wipe out Chinese regiment, Tungchow; Amer school, Jefferson Academy, bombed; H S Martin and J N Hunter, Amer missionaries, reptd safe; Tungchow, under Japanese control, cut off from all communication
1937Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter[â ]
Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as English-language Hollywood films: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire, L'emmerdeur, La Cage aux Folles, Le Jouet, Les Compères, La chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Le dÎner de cons and La Doublure. He also wrote the screenplay for My Father the Hero, the 1994 American remake of the French-language film Mon père, ce hÊros.